The Halloween Tree

The Halloween Tree
Ray Douglas Bradbury

One of Ray Bradbury’s classic stories – available in ebook for the first time.On Halloween night, eight trick-or-treaters gather at the haunted house by the edge of town, ready for adventure. But when Something whisks their friend Pip away, only one man – the sinister Carapace Clavicle Moundshroud – can help the boys find him.A classic tale of horror and adventure from the master of storytelling, Ray Bradbury.

THE HALLOWEEN TREE

Illustrated by Joseph Mugnaini

Ray Bradbury

With love for

MADAME MAN’HA GARREAU-DOMBASLE

met twenty-seven years

ago in the graveyard at

midnight on the Island

of Janitzio at Lake Patzcuaro,

Mexico, and remembered

on each anniversary of

The Day of the Dead.

Table of Contents

Cover (#uc0fdf884-7458-5a0d-bd69-1d322f20fb51)

Title Page (#ub239ccd5-cb90-58ab-9c31-13a2eafe8184)

Dedication (#udfc31bf3-7edb-5d07-8ade-6d804f055833)

Chapter 1 (#ulink_84f9fc50-9ce8-569f-ae9c-b00810b7411b)

Chapter 2 (#ulink_200cf751-a465-5f3f-b243-2b66b26548b0)

Chapter 3 (#ulink_9877ed41-50fa-5e37-b661-ece613558867)

Chapter 4 (#ulink_e6a3621c-4a6f-5a47-84ad-0ad736959bc0)

Chapter 5 (#ulink_c4e01238-3c1c-5859-8571-d2772a33c637)

Chapter 6 (#ulink_ff64533e-eeda-59a3-856a-a9de20cc96b9)

Chapter 7 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 8 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 9 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 10 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 11 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 12 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 13 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 14 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 15 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 16 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 17 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 18 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 19 (#litres_trial_promo)

Keep Reading (#litres_trial_promo)

About the Book (#litres_trial_promo)

About the Author and Illustrator (#litres_trial_promo)

Also by the Author (#litres_trial_promo)

Copyright (#litres_trial_promo)

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Chapter 1 (#ulink_43f04fc8-f124-506b-a6f7-ce3357f1168d)

It was a small town by a small river and a small lake in a small northern part of a Midwest state. There wasn’t so much wilderness around you couldn’t see the town. But on the other hand there wasn’t so much town you couldn’t see and feel and touch and smell the wilderness. The town was full of trees. And dry grass and dead flowers now that autumn was here. And full of fences to walk on and sidewalks to skate on and a large ravine to tumble in and yell across. And the town was full of …

Boys.

And it was the afternoon of Halloween.

And all the houses shut against a cool wind.

And the town full of cold sunlight.

But suddenly, the day was gone.